Triple

T16761050
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Cube E407343 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object William Douglas Lansford
William Douglas Lansford was an American writer and screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
E1247927 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: William Douglas Lansford | Statement: [The Big Cube, screenwriter, William Douglas Lansford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Douglas Lansford
Context triple: [The Big Cube, screenwriter, William Douglas Lansford]
  • A. Sir William Randolph Douglas
    Sir William Randolph Douglas was a prominent Barbadian jurist who served as the country's Chief Justice and played a key role in the development of its post-independence legal system.
  • B. William C. Maxwell
    William C. Maxwell was a U.S. Army Air Service officer and early military aviator honored posthumously for his service, for whom Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama is named.
  • C. James Cullen Landis
    James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. David J. Brewer
    David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
  • E. Eldon Davis
    Eldon Davis was an American architect best known for helping popularize the futuristic, car-oriented Googie style in mid-20th-century roadside and commercial buildings.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: William Douglas Lansford
Triple: [The Big Cube, screenwriter, William Douglas Lansford]
Generated description
William Douglas Lansford was an American writer and screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Douglas Lansford
Target entity description: William Douglas Lansford was an American writer and screenwriter known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television.
  • A. Sir William Randolph Douglas
    Sir William Randolph Douglas was a prominent Barbadian jurist who served as the country's Chief Justice and played a key role in the development of its post-independence legal system.
  • B. William C. Maxwell
    William C. Maxwell was a U.S. Army Air Service officer and early military aviator honored posthumously for his service, for whom Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama is named.
  • C. James Cullen Landis
    James Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor and occasional director active in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • D. David J. Brewer
    David J. Brewer was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his support of laissez-faire constitutionalism and limitations on government regulation of the economy.
  • E. Eldon Davis
    Eldon Davis was an American architect best known for helping popularize the futuristic, car-oriented Googie style in mid-20th-century roadside and commercial buildings.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8839174188190909f190097207065 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3abec638c81909d71ff452a4123c9 completed April 18, 2026, 4:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a012327b68881908ad5f4e2fe03f56a completed May 11, 2026, 12:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a012533f9a8819096ab9b821c848dd2 completed May 11, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0125dead2481908a5c26bda5a7cd1f completed May 11, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:21 a.m.